KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany

Lisson is pleased to announce that Susan Hiller’s work is the subject of Bad Dreams, a major exhibition opening at KW Institute for Contemporary Art on 17 October. The first survey of Hiller’s work in Berlin, the show brings together five decades of the artist’s multimedia practice, exploring dreams, trance, hallucinations, spirituality, faith and encounters with the otherworldly.

The exhibition brings together ambitious audiovisual works including Belshazzar’s Feast (1983–84), Dream Screens (1996), Wild Talents (1997), Channels (2013) and Resounding (2013), alongside rarely seen Home Truths paintings from the 1980s, large-scale photographs from the Levitations series (2011) and sculptural works including Homage to Joseph Beuys and Outlaw Cowgirl. Drawing on Hiller’s longstanding interest in experiences that resist easy explanation, these works examine how images, stories and cultural beliefs shape perceptions of the world, and how ordinary objects can become charged with meaning through association and context.